Genus Culex. 
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to be the same, and the ungues in the $ and 9 agree, as well 
as the venation, according to Coquillett’s tables of North 
American species in the same paper. 
More recently Professor Howard has sent me a series of what 
he has taken to be C. pangens. Some of these are undoubted 
fatigans , some pipiens, and a few seem almost intermediate, but 
the difference in the venation previously pointed out holds good. 
Coquillet and Howard both appear to think C. fatigans and 
C. pipiens merge into one another, and certainly from the 
specimens they have sent me there is every indication of such. 
Sub-species a, Macleayi. Skuse. 
9 . Head deep brown to black, covered with thin golden 
curved scales, creamy upright forked ones behind in the middle, 
rather broader than usual, black upright ones on each side 
near the middle, and a narrow pale border round the eyes, 
ochraceous scales laterally ; black bristles projecting forwards ; 
antennae nearly black, basal joint and first half of the second 
joint pale testaceous ; clypeus deep brown ; proboscis deep brown, 
black in some lights, with a coppery or purple lustre ; palpi 
covered with deep purplish-black scales with a few grey ones 
near the apex. Thorax deep purplish-brown, covered with narrow 
Fig'. 239. 
Wing of Culex fatigans, 
sub-sp. Macleayi, Skuse (?). (X. 9.) 
curved golden to creamy coloured scales, with two bare lines 
running parallel with one another, broadest in front , often 
indistinct behind ; there are also three rows of black bristles on 
the mesonotum ; scutellum brown, with similarly shaped golden 
scales as the mesothorax; metathorax brown; pleurae paler 
than the thorax, with patches of white scales. Abdomen covered 
with deep purplish-brown to almost black scales, each segment 
having a basal band of pure-white scales more or less curved 
apically. Legs with a pale apical spot to the hind tibiae as well 
as a pale knee spot. Halteres ochraceous. 
Length. —4’5 to 5 mm. 9 i 5 mm. £ . 
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